lashing
/ˈlæʃɪŋ/ noun C1- Something used to tie something or lash it to something. · The lashings, which had been holding the chest to the deck of the storm-tossed ship, broke, and it went overboard.
- The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation, chastisement.
- The or an act of lashing; a heavy falling or downpour (of rain).
Plural lashings
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He came down almost across her back, and if he had been an old mongoose he would have known that then was the time to break her back with one bite; but he was afraid of the terrible lashing return stroke of the cobra.
“Wicked, wicked Darzee!” said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush.
While Albert was lashing the front of his carriage in the same manner that he had the newspapers which were the innocent agents of his discomfiture, as he was crossing the barrier he perceived Morrel, who was walking with a quick step and a bright eye.
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